Luca Zipoli

Luca Zipoli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transnational Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he is also affiliated to the Program in Comparative Literature. He holds a Ph.D. in Italian literature from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he also completed his undergraduate studies. 

He has researched and taught as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton and New York University, and was appointed as Fellow of the Italian Academy at Columbia University for the Spring of 2025. His field of scholarly interests spans a broad variety of topics in Renaissance Italian Literature, with a special reference to early-modern Florence. 

His publications in the field include the co-edited two volumes “Lettura del «Morgante»” (Florence, Olschki, 2025) as well as several essays on Luigi Pulci, Antonia Tanini Pulci, and Torquato Tasso. Luca Zipoli’s future single-authored monograph is titled “Around The Magnificent: Poetry, Magic and Religion in Early Modern Florence”. This book is part of the major research project titled “Globalizing the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges in Early-Modern Florence (1439-1492)”, that has thus far received funds from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Bryn Mawr College, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University.